Bill Text: TX HB945 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to issue a search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain intoxication criminal offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB945 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB945-Introduced.html

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89R3248 CJD-D
By: Spiller H.B. No. 945

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to issue a
search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested
for certain intoxication criminal offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 18.01(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
(j) A [Any] magistrate who is an attorney licensed by this
state or a justice of the peace may issue a search warrant under
Article 18.02(a)(10) to collect a blood specimen from a person who:
(1) is arrested for an offense under Section 49.04,
49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.061, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code;
and
(2) refuses to submit to a breath or blood alcohol
test.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.